Ok, I started playing a movie I have and I took a screen shot of it. I opened Paint and Pasted the screen shot in paint. I was in Paint and the move was playing... The movie was playing inside of Paint... I turned off the Movie, and the movie stoped in Paint. Also I had my documents open and I had my screen shot pic in it previewed. I moved it over the movie playing and the movie was playing on my picture file. It was like the file was transparent.
What caused this to happen?
Woah! Cool? So you pasted it in Paint and the movie was still playing? Was is just a cache problem? Like you sometimes get bits of other windows appearing on top and others in the background showing all white, etc. Was it that? Had the PC frozen, causing that? It isn't working for me...
its cool man! hehehe. hmm.. this is not suppose to happen. what is the specs of your PC? this issue is probably related to your processor. The amount of resource that your computer is handling, is maybe to much to be processed by the processor. when you opened paint and pasted the screenshot, the processor might have streamed the video to the active application running which is the paint. remember playing a video requires more resources that running other application.
it doesnt do it evertime for sure. my suggestion is you might want to try doing it on a faster PC. or maybe you want to upgrade your processor or the memory I hope that would help.
Thanks. I have a good processor, but I always do have many processes running for some reason. Most of them are the schost thing or whatever you call it.
oh.. okay.. maybe that's the problem. try to disable some processes on your computer. you can try msconfig then uncheck some of those things that you dont need. or maybe your computer needs Disk defragmenter. that would definitely help.
I never knew about this msconfig. How does it work? Which tab do I go under and what do I do there? Is it the services tab?
I remember on some versions of codecs, that problem occurs with using print screen to capture the image (especially with container files such as avi with divx and 3ivx).
Thanks for the information everyone. I will try to stay low on the processes.
I had this problem a while back, I just had to get a program that would allow me to screen shot a video, because the normal screen shot doesn't like to work while watching any movie...
I've heard, that this thing occurs mostly over shared video memory motherboards, ppl say that it's some kind of memory allocation issue, but anyway, you could place it like a patent pending new vídeo player, just immagine the possibilities, Paint playing video files... wow, what an interface... hehehehehe just kidding,
Wooh! Lots of posts all related to the hardware. Lets view it in a different way. When you take a screen shot of a movie in WMP or someother player and paste it in Paint what you achieve is a special picture which acts as a layer for playing movies. Just try opening a movie in WMP and open a lot of other windows on it. Then open the special picture. You can see the Movie playing in the picture. Really Cool!
Why not use this special picture in Power Point? Use this as the background in a slide and add whatever effects you want on the slide. Now open the Movie and then the Power Point show. You can see the movie with all your effects. Give it a try.
